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  <h1>About the Author</h1>
  <p><strong>Jimmy Song</strong> is a developer with over 20 years' experience who started his career by reading the second edition of <em>Programming Perl</em>, published by the very same publisher as this book. He's been involved in way too many startups and got into Bitcoin full time in 2014. He's contributed to many different Bitcoin open source projects over the years, including Armory, Bitcoin Core, btcd, and pycoin.</p>
  <p>If you ever meet Jimmy and want him to rant, ask him about Bitcoin, sound money, how fiat money makes everything worse, fasting, carnivory, powerlifting, raising children, or cowboy hats.</p>
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